Thank you, Charles. I get to be out in the ocean every day and her vastness returns me to peace again and again. When I return to peace, when I settle back into its infinite vast presence, I realize it never stopped or went anywhere. It is always here, permeating everyone and everything. It is only that i, in my very human journey into fear, separation or anger, have directed my gaze at other than peace and hidden her from my sight, from my awareness.
Thank you, Charles. Your voice always brings clarity and strength to the conversation, and I deeply appreciate it.
If I may share my perspective — real peace on this planet seems impossible so long as we remain under the thumb of a ruling class made up of billionaire abusers and warmongers. Whether they wear the badge of Republican or Democrat, Zionist or Hamas, American, Chinese, Russian, or Indian — they share one common tactic: they divide and conquer. They do this by fueling fear, God-ignorant religious tribalism, and nationalist hatred — manipulating well-meaning people into seeing others as “the enemy,” as “terrorist sympathizers,” as “evil outsiders,” as threats to one’s nation, faith, or identity.
This is the oldest trick in the book — and it still works frighteningly well. It’s the billionaire class’s playbook: divide the 99%, pit us against one another, and sit back as we tear each other apart. They manufacture enemies, promote tribalism, and dehumanize entire populations through relentless propaganda. And tragically, their most devoted followers — often those hypnotized by religious or nationalist rhetoric — internalize this tribalist fear and hatred, becoming unwitting tools for billionaire domination over us.
I urge you to take a look at this post: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/161HrAgrvf/. It shows just how far this inhumanity has gone. We’re seeing people thrown into what can only be described as concentration and extermination camps — camps in some cases even more brutal than Auschwitz. I don’t say that lightly. Members of my own family were murdered in those very death camps, and the propaganda used then (portraying Jews as dangerous enemies of the nation) is the same blueprint being used today by the right-wing billionaires.
The right-wing ruling class now scapegoats other groups: “savage terrorist Muslims,” “evil communist China,” or “criminal illegal immigrants.” The targets change, but the method is identical — dehumanize, divide, dominate. This is how they maintain control. It’s cynical, it’s calculated, and it works because people continue falling for it.
How can there be peace in a world where people are conditioned to fear and hate their fellow human beings, to strip us entirely of our humanity because of a religion or a nationality or immigration status? How can we talk about peace while the world is run by underdeveloped, ruthless men drunk on wealth and power, whose primary skill is teaching us to fear and hate each other?
Peace begins with awareness. We must see the ruling class for what it is — not just in abstract terms, but in a visceral way that cuts through their manipulative narratives.
And yes, this includes both parties. “Right-wing,” in this context, isn’t limited to Republicans — the right-wing capitalist Democratic establishment also plays this game. Both right-wing parties serve the same economic masters. Both weaponize identity, religion, and fear to divide us.
We also can’t fall into the trap of spiritual bypassing — focusing only on personal inner peace while ignoring the political and psychological war being waged on our collective consciousness. If we don’t actively confront and dismantle the propaganda that turns man against man, peace will remain a distant fantasy.
So how do we break the spell?
For me, it starts with understanding. Understanding how subtle — and often emotionally manipulative — the tactics of the billionaire class truly are. Their tools are fear, nationalist/religious division, and control — and they use media (both mainstream and social) to execute this agenda.
Here are two essays that brilliantly unpack these strategies:
In the end, it’s all about awareness. Once we clearly see their tribalist manipulations (including emotionally manipulating us into tribalist fear and hostility) for what they are then their jig is up, their power over us crumbles and peace becomes not only a possible but inevitabile.
We don’t have to keep playing this game. The billionaires and their political puppets only win and control us when we see each other as enemies (along religiois, national, ethnic, racial etc lines), instead of as fellow human beings, fellow God in drag — all of us struggling under the same manufactured crises and lies. When we resist the ruling class' emotional manipulation — the fearmongering, the scapegoating, the tribalism — we begin to take back our power.
Real peace isn’t just a dream — it’s a possibility, but only if we have the courage to look behind the curtain and recognize how we've been conditioned to fight each other instead of standing together. That starts with awareness, it deepens through solidarity, and it manifests through collective refusal to be divided any longer.
So IMHO the question isn’t “Can peace happen?” The question is: Are we willing to dismantle the emotional and psychological machinery that has kept us at war — with each other, and within ourselves — for so long?
Because once we truly see the manipulation for what it is, the spell is broken. And when that happens, their centuries-old game of domination and deceit starts to fall apart — and in that crumbling, a new world becomes possible.
Right on!! Very well said!! And thank you for those interesting essays in the links. They really shed light on what's going on and how peace in being deliberately held back by the uber-wealthy predators and their infantile undeveloped narcissist bully representitive in the white house, through the manipulative tactics that you mentioned of tribalist division and manufactured 'evil enemies' for us to fear and hate.
The Western elites have developed a perfect cover story for cocooning the terrorist zionist regime, its fascist offspring: those who oppose the subjugation and brutalisation of the Palestinian people are denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination. They are thus “antisemites”.
In parallel, any Palestinian who resists subjugation and brutalisation is a "terrorist". Ergo, those who ally with Palestinians are in league with terrorists.
In a further leap, because the West has cast Palestinians as part of the Muslim masses of the Arab world – even though there are many Palestinian Christians and Druze – Palestinian resistance to Israeli oppression can be presented as an adjunct of a so-called "Islamist threat" to 'western civilization'
In truth, no Palestinian group is fighting to conquer the West, or to impose sharia law on Europe and the US. Palestinian resistance groups are seeking only to liberate their homeland from decades of colonial mass-murder, torture, dispossesion, theft, demonization and ethnic cleansing.
Predictably, the longer that the zionist occupation and abusive subjugation has continued, with extravagant backing by western elites, the more Palestinians facing Israel’s abuses have been drawn to less accommodationist militant groups, like hamas.
No matter. Israel is presented by conservative elite oligarch propagandista as a small, heroic victim defending the West from the "savage Muslim hordes". In a narrative that utterly inverts reality, the invading zionist occupying regime serves as the "humanist" rampart against Palestinian – and by extension, Muslim – "barbarism".
It is this premise that makes it possible for Michael Gove, a former British government minister, to write an article in the midst of Israel’s genocide headlined: “The Israeli military should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize”.
It is this premise that allows someone like Howard Jacobson to demand silence at the killing, maiming, brutalizing, torturing, abusing, starving and terrorizing of two million of indigenous children, mothers, fathers and elderly in Gaza, because speaking in their defence supposedly amounts to a “blood libel” against the Jewish people.
It is this premise that means Melanie Phillips, a journalistic staple of BBC panel shows, can get away with writing: “If you support the Palestinian Arab cause today, you are facilitating deranged and murderous Jew-hatred.”
This is an extract from my latest article 'The new fascism: Israel is the template for Trump and Europe’s war on freedom'
Thank you so much for that. I deeply appreciate Jonathan Cook’s insightful work and am quite familiar with his contributions. That said, my own response to the pervasive and manipulative propaganda and lies promoted by certain right-wing Zionist-Republican billionaires would take a different shape.
We’re witnessing a highly coordinated media campaign and propaganda blitz designed to aggressively push a particular narrative—one that vilifies anyone who dares to challenge or condemn the ongoing atrocities committed against the indigenous Palestinian population. Those who speak out against the mass murder, abuse, rape, torture of children, mothers, fathers, and elders, or who highlight the decades-long zionist colonial project of dispossession, expulsion, and dehumanization, or who oppose the neo-nazi supremacist zionist ideology, are too often branded as “jew-hating antisemites” simply for defending the most basic human rights.
But I believe it’s essential to clarify what this is truly about. The ruthless violence and dispossession inflicted upon the indigenous people is not about “protecting Jews”—it’s about control. It’s about maintaining power by the zionist ruling class over ordinary jews (I'll explain in a moment exactly how). Ordinary jews for whom the right-wing zionist billionaire have nothing but contempt (evidence below)
Rather than respond with rhetoric, I believe the most powerful and ethical approach is to dismantle the zionist billionaires' propaganda and lies through truth—through undeniable (but suppressed and censored) FACTS that expose what the billionaires' media (whether Republican or Democrat) refuses to talk about. If we genuinely wish to understand how the zionist elites and their right-wing backers (both democrats and republicans) manipulate public perception, how they are absolutely NOT on the side of ordinary Jews, and how they serve no one but themselves, then I invite you to read the following four very important (but censored) facts
This conflict is deliberately misrepresented by the billionaire elite (both israeli and arab) and their narrative managers in a manipulative distorted manner as if it is a conflict between ordinary jews and ordinary muslims, between ordinary israelis and ordinary palestinians, when in reality it is a war waged by the billionaire ruling class (both jewish and arab) on the have-nots (both jewish and arab
Here are a few key facts that clearly illustrate this
1) The Zionist ruling class has spent over a century carrying out a brutal campaign of dispossession, dehumanization, expulsion, torture, abuse, rape, and mass murder against local palestinians—not merely for territorial conquest, but to maintain control over ordinary Israeli Jews. It might not be immediately clear for those not familiar with the dynamics involved but the systematic violence and dispossesion against palestinians actually indirectly serves a dual purpose for the israeli ruling class: 1) to severely economically exploit the Israeli public and enrich themselves. and 2) to prevent our rising up against the billionaire elite in power. How does their ruthless violence against the indigenous palestinians achieves these goals for the israeli elite? Through the "Boogeyman Enemy" principle—a well-documented tactic of elite control (explained in depth here (https://johnspritzler.substack.com/p/oppressors-need-bogeyman-enemies).
The relentless cruelty, dispossesion, dehumanization, mass-murder, terrorism and abuse by the zionist state is deliberately designed to provoke Palestinian anger, resistance and backlash, which the zionist regime then frames as an unprovoked antisemite attack against jews for being jews. By deliberately fostering and manufacturing this tribalist hostility and fear, the zionist billionaires (and their representitives in the israeli govt) position themselves as the "indispensable protectors" of Israeli Jews, all while enforcing severe economic exploitation of israelis and suppressing dissent.
The manipulative narrative that the zionist elite and their narrative managers sell us is this: "You face a savage, irrational enemy—one that hates you simply for being Jewish (never mind the decades of occupation and brutal murderous violence we've inflicted on them). Only we, the patriotic billionaires and our political puppets, can shield you from this danger. So you need to rally around the flag and unite behind your great patriotic leader, who really really loves you and really really wants to protect you from that evil enemy over there who is coming to get you. And don't ever dare question our authority over you or think about removing from power over you—lest the ‘antisemitic barbarians’ destroy you."
In short: The oppression of Palestinians is a tool to control Israelis. The real enemy of ordinary israelis isn’t palestinians resisting their dispossesion, massacre and decades of brutal cruel violence and dehumanization—it’s the oligarchs who profit from perpetual tribalist division, fear, hate and war.
2) From its inception, Zionist leadership has pursued an agenda fundamentally hostile to ordinary jews. Even during the Holocaust, their priorities were chillingly clear: zionist (elite-ruled) state over jewish lives. When opportunities arose to rescue Jews from Nazi genocide, Zionist leaders actively opposed them, because such efforts did not serve their political goal of establishing a state of their own (under their control). See evidence below. Ziionist ultra-wealthy leaders needed dead Jews to use as bargaining chips to elicit world sympathy and guilt-trip humanity into not objecting when they implemented their planned ethnic-cleansing of the indigenous people to create their state.
For the manipulative Zionist billionaire ruling class, Jewish lives were NEVER the priority. The priority was always their control and position at the top of the pyramid in their OWN carved-out fiefdom - the israeli state
If there is space left at the end then i will give even more example of the complete contempt that the zionist ruling class has for ordinary jews and how they routinely hurt ordinary jews to further their domination agenda.
3) For decades, Israeli rulers have deliberately funded and bolstered Hamas—a policy that continues to this day!! Why? To ensure the "boogeyman enemy" remains a potent threat, justifying perpetual militarization, repression, and public fear. This is not conspiracy; it is well-documented strategy.
Mainstream sources confirm that Israeli leadership—from Netanyahu’s multiple governments to military officials—has repeatedly propped up Hamas to both undermine Palestinian unity, and to manufacture a frightening adversary with which to scare israelis into compliance and loyalty to them (the zionist oligarchs and their political puppets). They do this in order to sustain the manipulative narrative of an existential threat from an irrationally antisemite enemy , ensuring the compliance of ordinary israelis and justifying their endless cycles of brutal mass-murdering attacks on the indigenous people (the cycles that sustain the perpetual tribalist division, fear, hate and war, upon which the ruling class thrive and upon which they depend for their control over us).
4) Hamas, like its counterparts in the Israeli ruling class, also serves the interests of billionaires—not the people it claims to represent, as exposed here https://johnspritzler.substack.com/p/hamas-leaders-are-billionaires-who?r=1iggn, its political leaders (who live outside of palestine) amass obscene wealth while ordinary palestinians suffer and are slaughtered en masse by heavily-propagandized & hypnotized zionist tribalists.
Hamas got votes NOT because Palestinians desired an right-wing religious theocracy, but because it positioned itself as the lesser of two evils—an alternative to the Palestinian Authority (PA), a corrupt proxy regime bankrolled by Israeli and Western oligarchs to crush Palestinian resistance. The PA exists to enforce the orders of the zionist billionaire ruling class, making Hamas—despite its authoritarianism—appear to ordinary palestinians as the only force willing to confront the murderous evil of Zionist colonization, abuse, torture and dispossesion
This is the same cynical playbook used by right-wing fascists everywhere: Zionist neo-Nazis in Israel (bankrolled by jewish billionaires) win votes by fearmongering about "evil enemies" and promising that "we will protect you from those evil people who for some strange unknown reason are hostile towards the zionist regime (must be antisemitism, no other explanation)", in the exact same way as Hamas gains support by posing as Gaza’s "defenders." The same right-wing billionaires' playbook everywhere. The goal is always the same—to manipulate the 99% (the non-ruling class) into viewing our billionaire oppressors and jailors as our "protectors from that evil enemy over there who is coming to get you".
Wow wow wow!! This is mindblowing. Thess are really really important facts. I don’t think many people know these things. I wish everyone could read and know this. We’d be living in a completely different world if people knew these facts. I guess that’s the reason why they’re so heavily suppressed and censored..
Thanks very much for that ... As in all of life ... don't be afraid to speak and share your understanding of truth ... it shows everyone else that they can too ... we have a responsibility to do this. Make it loud, everywhere, all at once ... let's decide how we want to be and do that ... build that ... let the current system go ... don't participate ... don't comply!
We can replace GREED with KINDNESS, HATE with LOVE, FEAR with COMMUNITY.
Thank you for this information and the links to the articles, as well as the links within links! Very good reads indeed. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. We are so entwined. It would be nice to live in a world without enemies. I profess to have none. I don't believe in enemies. If I feel you have 'done me wrong', it is the wrong I abhor not you. That is doable if the hurt isn't too egregious. As Charles points out, it takes two to make peace. If someone continually and consistently inflicts hurt and pain, how long can we only abhor the thing they are doing and not them. Some with grace managed this during the holocaust and horrific circumstances. Most of us cannot. As the linked within linked articles point out, it comes down to 2 things: money and religion. Both make the idea of enemy possible, as we humans who reside perpetually in fear for our own survival over another's, who don't believe that we are all a connected One and eternal, strive to do better than, have more than and know the 'answer' to the mystery of life.
I think it goes beyond tribalism... this is industrialised... I offer you Martin Shaw, see my comment. Martin has a point. Painful history is more than 'making a case' (see Charles).
Here's something that might interest you: Combatants for Peace
The world needs to see that humanity persists, that there is another way, and that despite everything, we will not stop fighting for a future built on dignity, justice, and peace for all. We can't do this alone and your support is crucial.
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so so so agree - too many people & organizations wanting, with good hearts, to make the world a better place end up being just part of the noise by using the language of The Parasitic System; and 'fighting' is a very prevalent one... That language is holding everything in the pattern The Parasitic System likes it: us against nature and each against everyone. Our language is the way to keep the world as it is ...or change the world to be what we want it to be.
Good points, I agree that for a general movement, we need to claim the word peaceing, and make it a common term. Although there is peacemaking, which works pretty well. This group is made up of former fighters who put their weapons down to make peace, therefore combatants is the word they used to accurately describe themselves. I think, for this group, that is an appropriate name and perspective to take.
I needed this, too. I have been writing Wage Peace on my arm and everywhere I have a minute not doodle for the last two weeks... While simultaneously reading the Art of War .. and praying for understanding in the relationship with my Love...
I feel so much opening and light breading these words. It takes two. And I can straight up pray and ask for a Miracle. Why have I never done that?
Everything that has happened has brought us to where we are. Humans evolve through challenges, so even if there is a “car crash” we can know that it will be okay. Wisdom could have us avoid the crash, but humanity will evolve for the better either way. And perhaps the harder challenge of the crash is necessary for our evolution, who knows? By staying in presence, we can realize all is perfect despite the appearance of so much imperfection.
More and more I am softening into the kind observation that when we speak about anything, we are speaking about ourselves. In that way I can listen with heart and compassion and with an ear that wants to know the speaker's heart. It's passions, its troubles, its blindness, its longing. It's hiding behind pointing, blaming, opinion. Ah, and there you are...just like me, trying to connect.
Your efforts have not been lost on the rest of us, Charles. I don’t think humanity in general is quite ready for peace yet. We humans have not had enough of the status quo to move on. What you, as well as anyone else, does do by voicing personal thoughts is to plant a seed. Not with the intent to see the effect. Speaking out and offering one’s thoughts is a process of expressing one’s self to the fullest. Not to achieve some visible goal, but to do our part, each of us, to express our fullest potential. Shine on Charles. I’m listening and thinking and so are others.
A rupture in ordinary perception—a moment where we break free from the default, conditioned lens and see with new eyes. It’s an invitation from the field of life to wake up, to remember.
Maybe, miracles are not about defying natural law, but about revealing a deeper natural law—one that links consciousness with co-creation.
In contrast to the “cultural noise,” the enlightened silence of nature becomes a tuning fork for the sacred. The forest doesn’t argue. The ocean doesn’t divide. They just offer their song. And if we’re quiet enough, we hear it. That’s when a miracle happens—we notice the pattern, the pulse, the invitation.
A miracle is not something rare—it’s something real, simply revealed in a moment of presence.
In the age of chaos, miracles are what remain untouched, inviting us back into relationship with what is true, ancient, and alive.
Me too. I work in customer service. People are just more Them. And I noticed myself, too... Singing out loud where as before I'd be afraid I'd disturb someone. Or hugging a tree. Cuz. Who the fuck cares if I'm weird now?
Bless you Charles. The world is a better place with you in it .Sharing all that you do helps us all to move towards creating a more beautiful world right where we are now. Thank you 💕
When each of us gives love unconditionally to everyone, we are on the path for the miracles you speak of to happen.
The man you tried to get elected as President is literally waging war on the health care system of the USA. And, not in a good way. People have died and will die as a result of the nutty polices of this unqualified person whose only qualification is sucking up to the convicted felon/rapist. So, thanks for your flowery words. War means death. You’re doing your part by standing on the sidelines.
All true - experiencing the same thing though I fear to test it by actually saying anything political! Love that you are keeping your sense of humor too :)
I am in the middle of a month long art project inviting people to stitch love letters to the beings in this world: 'frog love, 'caterpillar love', 'grass love' ... (it's quite a detailed project which I will not explain here). I have done projects along these lines before but I have noticed during this time an even greater openness in people than I have found before - a wanting to be part of spreading love around... and wanting some bolstering / encouragement that it is okay to do it. As my art practice has become one of what I call 'subversive joy' I am happy to offer that encouragement and invite everyone to, in a domino effect, offer that encouragement to everyone they meet... :-)
Thank you, Charles. I get to be out in the ocean every day and her vastness returns me to peace again and again. When I return to peace, when I settle back into its infinite vast presence, I realize it never stopped or went anywhere. It is always here, permeating everyone and everything. It is only that i, in my very human journey into fear, separation or anger, have directed my gaze at other than peace and hidden her from my sight, from my awareness.
Thank you, Charles. Your voice always brings clarity and strength to the conversation, and I deeply appreciate it.
If I may share my perspective — real peace on this planet seems impossible so long as we remain under the thumb of a ruling class made up of billionaire abusers and warmongers. Whether they wear the badge of Republican or Democrat, Zionist or Hamas, American, Chinese, Russian, or Indian — they share one common tactic: they divide and conquer. They do this by fueling fear, God-ignorant religious tribalism, and nationalist hatred — manipulating well-meaning people into seeing others as “the enemy,” as “terrorist sympathizers,” as “evil outsiders,” as threats to one’s nation, faith, or identity.
This is the oldest trick in the book — and it still works frighteningly well. It’s the billionaire class’s playbook: divide the 99%, pit us against one another, and sit back as we tear each other apart. They manufacture enemies, promote tribalism, and dehumanize entire populations through relentless propaganda. And tragically, their most devoted followers — often those hypnotized by religious or nationalist rhetoric — internalize this tribalist fear and hatred, becoming unwitting tools for billionaire domination over us.
I urge you to take a look at this post: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/161HrAgrvf/. It shows just how far this inhumanity has gone. We’re seeing people thrown into what can only be described as concentration and extermination camps — camps in some cases even more brutal than Auschwitz. I don’t say that lightly. Members of my own family were murdered in those very death camps, and the propaganda used then (portraying Jews as dangerous enemies of the nation) is the same blueprint being used today by the right-wing billionaires.
The right-wing ruling class now scapegoats other groups: “savage terrorist Muslims,” “evil communist China,” or “criminal illegal immigrants.” The targets change, but the method is identical — dehumanize, divide, dominate. This is how they maintain control. It’s cynical, it’s calculated, and it works because people continue falling for it.
How can there be peace in a world where people are conditioned to fear and hate their fellow human beings, to strip us entirely of our humanity because of a religion or a nationality or immigration status? How can we talk about peace while the world is run by underdeveloped, ruthless men drunk on wealth and power, whose primary skill is teaching us to fear and hate each other?
Peace begins with awareness. We must see the ruling class for what it is — not just in abstract terms, but in a visceral way that cuts through their manipulative narratives.
And yes, this includes both parties. “Right-wing,” in this context, isn’t limited to Republicans — the right-wing capitalist Democratic establishment also plays this game. Both right-wing parties serve the same economic masters. Both weaponize identity, religion, and fear to divide us.
We also can’t fall into the trap of spiritual bypassing — focusing only on personal inner peace while ignoring the political and psychological war being waged on our collective consciousness. If we don’t actively confront and dismantle the propaganda that turns man against man, peace will remain a distant fantasy.
So how do we break the spell?
For me, it starts with understanding. Understanding how subtle — and often emotionally manipulative — the tactics of the billionaire class truly are. Their tools are fear, nationalist/religious division, and control — and they use media (both mainstream and social) to execute this agenda.
Here are two essays that brilliantly unpack these strategies:
• https://johnspritzler.substack.com/p/oppressors-need-bogeyman-enemies– An incisive look at how the ruling class invents “monstrous enemies” to justify oppression and to manipulate the public into compliance and loyalty to them (the ruling class predators)
• https://johnspritzler.substack.com/p/i-found-it-the-misplaced-owners-manual A sharp, satirical piece that reads like a leaked instruction manual for the ultra-rich, showing just how insidious their divide-and-rule strategies really are.
In the end, it’s all about awareness. Once we clearly see their tribalist manipulations (including emotionally manipulating us into tribalist fear and hostility) for what they are then their jig is up, their power over us crumbles and peace becomes not only a possible but inevitabile.
We don’t have to keep playing this game. The billionaires and their political puppets only win and control us when we see each other as enemies (along religiois, national, ethnic, racial etc lines), instead of as fellow human beings, fellow God in drag — all of us struggling under the same manufactured crises and lies. When we resist the ruling class' emotional manipulation — the fearmongering, the scapegoating, the tribalism — we begin to take back our power.
Real peace isn’t just a dream — it’s a possibility, but only if we have the courage to look behind the curtain and recognize how we've been conditioned to fight each other instead of standing together. That starts with awareness, it deepens through solidarity, and it manifests through collective refusal to be divided any longer.
So IMHO the question isn’t “Can peace happen?” The question is: Are we willing to dismantle the emotional and psychological machinery that has kept us at war — with each other, and within ourselves — for so long?
Because once we truly see the manipulation for what it is, the spell is broken. And when that happens, their centuries-old game of domination and deceit starts to fall apart — and in that crumbling, a new world becomes possible.
Right on!! Very well said!! And thank you for those interesting essays in the links. They really shed light on what's going on and how peace in being deliberately held back by the uber-wealthy predators and their infantile undeveloped narcissist bully representitive in the white house, through the manipulative tactics that you mentioned of tribalist division and manufactured 'evil enemies' for us to fear and hate.
You might be interested in this very preceptive note by the wise Jonathan cook - https://substack.com/@jonathancook/note/c-102994716
I'll copy some of it here:
The Western elites have developed a perfect cover story for cocooning the terrorist zionist regime, its fascist offspring: those who oppose the subjugation and brutalisation of the Palestinian people are denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination. They are thus “antisemites”.
In parallel, any Palestinian who resists subjugation and brutalisation is a "terrorist". Ergo, those who ally with Palestinians are in league with terrorists.
In a further leap, because the West has cast Palestinians as part of the Muslim masses of the Arab world – even though there are many Palestinian Christians and Druze – Palestinian resistance to Israeli oppression can be presented as an adjunct of a so-called "Islamist threat" to 'western civilization'
In truth, no Palestinian group is fighting to conquer the West, or to impose sharia law on Europe and the US. Palestinian resistance groups are seeking only to liberate their homeland from decades of colonial mass-murder, torture, dispossesion, theft, demonization and ethnic cleansing.
Predictably, the longer that the zionist occupation and abusive subjugation has continued, with extravagant backing by western elites, the more Palestinians facing Israel’s abuses have been drawn to less accommodationist militant groups, like hamas.
No matter. Israel is presented by conservative elite oligarch propagandista as a small, heroic victim defending the West from the "savage Muslim hordes". In a narrative that utterly inverts reality, the invading zionist occupying regime serves as the "humanist" rampart against Palestinian – and by extension, Muslim – "barbarism".
It is this premise that makes it possible for Michael Gove, a former British government minister, to write an article in the midst of Israel’s genocide headlined: “The Israeli military should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize”.
It is this premise that allows someone like Howard Jacobson to demand silence at the killing, maiming, brutalizing, torturing, abusing, starving and terrorizing of two million of indigenous children, mothers, fathers and elderly in Gaza, because speaking in their defence supposedly amounts to a “blood libel” against the Jewish people.
It is this premise that means Melanie Phillips, a journalistic staple of BBC panel shows, can get away with writing: “If you support the Palestinian Arab cause today, you are facilitating deranged and murderous Jew-hatred.”
This is an extract from my latest article 'The new fascism: Israel is the template for Trump and Europe’s war on freedom'
Read the entire article here https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathancook/p/the-new-fascism-israel-is-the-
Thank you so much for that. I deeply appreciate Jonathan Cook’s insightful work and am quite familiar with his contributions. That said, my own response to the pervasive and manipulative propaganda and lies promoted by certain right-wing Zionist-Republican billionaires would take a different shape.
We’re witnessing a highly coordinated media campaign and propaganda blitz designed to aggressively push a particular narrative—one that vilifies anyone who dares to challenge or condemn the ongoing atrocities committed against the indigenous Palestinian population. Those who speak out against the mass murder, abuse, rape, torture of children, mothers, fathers, and elders, or who highlight the decades-long zionist colonial project of dispossession, expulsion, and dehumanization, or who oppose the neo-nazi supremacist zionist ideology, are too often branded as “jew-hating antisemites” simply for defending the most basic human rights.
But I believe it’s essential to clarify what this is truly about. The ruthless violence and dispossession inflicted upon the indigenous people is not about “protecting Jews”—it’s about control. It’s about maintaining power by the zionist ruling class over ordinary jews (I'll explain in a moment exactly how). Ordinary jews for whom the right-wing zionist billionaire have nothing but contempt (evidence below)
Rather than respond with rhetoric, I believe the most powerful and ethical approach is to dismantle the zionist billionaires' propaganda and lies through truth—through undeniable (but suppressed and censored) FACTS that expose what the billionaires' media (whether Republican or Democrat) refuses to talk about. If we genuinely wish to understand how the zionist elites and their right-wing backers (both democrats and republicans) manipulate public perception, how they are absolutely NOT on the side of ordinary Jews, and how they serve no one but themselves, then I invite you to read the following four very important (but censored) facts
This conflict is deliberately misrepresented by the billionaire elite (both israeli and arab) and their narrative managers in a manipulative distorted manner as if it is a conflict between ordinary jews and ordinary muslims, between ordinary israelis and ordinary palestinians, when in reality it is a war waged by the billionaire ruling class (both jewish and arab) on the have-nots (both jewish and arab
Here are a few key facts that clearly illustrate this
1) The Zionist ruling class has spent over a century carrying out a brutal campaign of dispossession, dehumanization, expulsion, torture, abuse, rape, and mass murder against local palestinians—not merely for territorial conquest, but to maintain control over ordinary Israeli Jews. It might not be immediately clear for those not familiar with the dynamics involved but the systematic violence and dispossesion against palestinians actually indirectly serves a dual purpose for the israeli ruling class: 1) to severely economically exploit the Israeli public and enrich themselves. and 2) to prevent our rising up against the billionaire elite in power. How does their ruthless violence against the indigenous palestinians achieves these goals for the israeli elite? Through the "Boogeyman Enemy" principle—a well-documented tactic of elite control (explained in depth here (https://johnspritzler.substack.com/p/oppressors-need-bogeyman-enemies).
The relentless cruelty, dispossesion, dehumanization, mass-murder, terrorism and abuse by the zionist state is deliberately designed to provoke Palestinian anger, resistance and backlash, which the zionist regime then frames as an unprovoked antisemite attack against jews for being jews. By deliberately fostering and manufacturing this tribalist hostility and fear, the zionist billionaires (and their representitives in the israeli govt) position themselves as the "indispensable protectors" of Israeli Jews, all while enforcing severe economic exploitation of israelis and suppressing dissent.
The manipulative narrative that the zionist elite and their narrative managers sell us is this: "You face a savage, irrational enemy—one that hates you simply for being Jewish (never mind the decades of occupation and brutal murderous violence we've inflicted on them). Only we, the patriotic billionaires and our political puppets, can shield you from this danger. So you need to rally around the flag and unite behind your great patriotic leader, who really really loves you and really really wants to protect you from that evil enemy over there who is coming to get you. And don't ever dare question our authority over you or think about removing from power over you—lest the ‘antisemitic barbarians’ destroy you."
This is not speculation. Mainstream Israeli sources themselves expose these tactics. For proof, see this profoundly important report https://www.pdrboston.org/israel-s-government-attacks-jews-to.
In short: The oppression of Palestinians is a tool to control Israelis. The real enemy of ordinary israelis isn’t palestinians resisting their dispossesion, massacre and decades of brutal cruel violence and dehumanization—it’s the oligarchs who profit from perpetual tribalist division, fear, hate and war.
2) From its inception, Zionist leadership has pursued an agenda fundamentally hostile to ordinary jews. Even during the Holocaust, their priorities were chillingly clear: zionist (elite-ruled) state over jewish lives. When opportunities arose to rescue Jews from Nazi genocide, Zionist leaders actively opposed them, because such efforts did not serve their political goal of establishing a state of their own (under their control). See evidence below. Ziionist ultra-wealthy leaders needed dead Jews to use as bargaining chips to elicit world sympathy and guilt-trip humanity into not objecting when they implemented their planned ethnic-cleansing of the indigenous people to create their state.
This is not speculation. Mainstream Jewish sources themselves document this betrayal—proof that Zionist elites have long sacrificed ordinary Jews for their own ideological and geopolitical ambitions. For the evidence, see this detailed exposé https://johnspritzler.substack.com/p/why-really-zionist-leaders-have-always?r=1iggn.
For the manipulative Zionist billionaire ruling class, Jewish lives were NEVER the priority. The priority was always their control and position at the top of the pyramid in their OWN carved-out fiefdom - the israeli state
If there is space left at the end then i will give even more example of the complete contempt that the zionist ruling class has for ordinary jews and how they routinely hurt ordinary jews to further their domination agenda.
3) For decades, Israeli rulers have deliberately funded and bolstered Hamas—a policy that continues to this day!! Why? To ensure the "boogeyman enemy" remains a potent threat, justifying perpetual militarization, repression, and public fear. This is not conspiracy; it is well-documented strategy.
Mainstream sources confirm that Israeli leadership—from Netanyahu’s multiple governments to military officials—has repeatedly propped up Hamas to both undermine Palestinian unity, and to manufacture a frightening adversary with which to scare israelis into compliance and loyalty to them (the zionist oligarchs and their political puppets). They do this in order to sustain the manipulative narrative of an existential threat from an irrationally antisemite enemy , ensuring the compliance of ordinary israelis and justifying their endless cycles of brutal mass-murdering attacks on the indigenous people (the cycles that sustain the perpetual tribalist division, fear, hate and war, upon which the ruling class thrive and upon which they depend for their control over us).
Read the proof of this based on mainstream sources here https://www.pdrboston.org/israel-funds-hamas-keeps-it-in-power. And here https://johnspritzler.substack.com/p/there-should-not-be-a-jewish-state?r=1iggn
4) Hamas, like its counterparts in the Israeli ruling class, also serves the interests of billionaires—not the people it claims to represent, as exposed here https://johnspritzler.substack.com/p/hamas-leaders-are-billionaires-who?r=1iggn, its political leaders (who live outside of palestine) amass obscene wealth while ordinary palestinians suffer and are slaughtered en masse by heavily-propagandized & hypnotized zionist tribalists.
Hamas got votes NOT because Palestinians desired an right-wing religious theocracy, but because it positioned itself as the lesser of two evils—an alternative to the Palestinian Authority (PA), a corrupt proxy regime bankrolled by Israeli and Western oligarchs to crush Palestinian resistance. The PA exists to enforce the orders of the zionist billionaire ruling class, making Hamas—despite its authoritarianism—appear to ordinary palestinians as the only force willing to confront the murderous evil of Zionist colonization, abuse, torture and dispossesion
This is the same cynical playbook used by right-wing fascists everywhere: Zionist neo-Nazis in Israel (bankrolled by jewish billionaires) win votes by fearmongering about "evil enemies" and promising that "we will protect you from those evil people who for some strange unknown reason are hostile towards the zionist regime (must be antisemitism, no other explanation)", in the exact same way as Hamas gains support by posing as Gaza’s "defenders." The same right-wing billionaires' playbook everywhere. The goal is always the same—to manipulate the 99% (the non-ruling class) into viewing our billionaire oppressors and jailors as our "protectors from that evil enemy over there who is coming to get you".
Wow wow wow!! This is mindblowing. Thess are really really important facts. I don’t think many people know these things. I wish everyone could read and know this. We’d be living in a completely different world if people knew these facts. I guess that’s the reason why they’re so heavily suppressed and censored..
Thanks very much for that ... As in all of life ... don't be afraid to speak and share your understanding of truth ... it shows everyone else that they can too ... we have a responsibility to do this. Make it loud, everywhere, all at once ... let's decide how we want to be and do that ... build that ... let the current system go ... don't participate ... don't comply!
We can replace GREED with KINDNESS, HATE with LOVE, FEAR with COMMUNITY.
Thank you for this information and the links to the articles, as well as the links within links! Very good reads indeed. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. We are so entwined. It would be nice to live in a world without enemies. I profess to have none. I don't believe in enemies. If I feel you have 'done me wrong', it is the wrong I abhor not you. That is doable if the hurt isn't too egregious. As Charles points out, it takes two to make peace. If someone continually and consistently inflicts hurt and pain, how long can we only abhor the thing they are doing and not them. Some with grace managed this during the holocaust and horrific circumstances. Most of us cannot. As the linked within linked articles point out, it comes down to 2 things: money and religion. Both make the idea of enemy possible, as we humans who reside perpetually in fear for our own survival over another's, who don't believe that we are all a connected One and eternal, strive to do better than, have more than and know the 'answer' to the mystery of life.
I think it goes beyond tribalism... this is industrialised... I offer you Martin Shaw, see my comment. Martin has a point. Painful history is more than 'making a case' (see Charles).
Here's something that might interest you: Combatants for Peace
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How about '... despite everything we will not stop 'peace ing' for a future ...' instead of 'fighting'?
Ironically peaceing does not appear to be an actual word?!? Why is that?!?
Good pointing ... I find I have to add words that are "missing" quite often these days. 😊
so so so agree - too many people & organizations wanting, with good hearts, to make the world a better place end up being just part of the noise by using the language of The Parasitic System; and 'fighting' is a very prevalent one... That language is holding everything in the pattern The Parasitic System likes it: us against nature and each against everyone. Our language is the way to keep the world as it is ...or change the world to be what we want it to be.
Good points, I agree that for a general movement, we need to claim the word peaceing, and make it a common term. Although there is peacemaking, which works pretty well. This group is made up of former fighters who put their weapons down to make peace, therefore combatants is the word they used to accurately describe themselves. I think, for this group, that is an appropriate name and perspective to take.
Thank you, brother. I needed this today. Exactly this.
I needed this, too. I have been writing Wage Peace on my arm and everywhere I have a minute not doodle for the last two weeks... While simultaneously reading the Art of War .. and praying for understanding in the relationship with my Love...
I feel so much opening and light breading these words. It takes two. And I can straight up pray and ask for a Miracle. Why have I never done that?
Thank you, Charles!
Everything that has happened has brought us to where we are. Humans evolve through challenges, so even if there is a “car crash” we can know that it will be okay. Wisdom could have us avoid the crash, but humanity will evolve for the better either way. And perhaps the harder challenge of the crash is necessary for our evolution, who knows? By staying in presence, we can realize all is perfect despite the appearance of so much imperfection.
More and more I am softening into the kind observation that when we speak about anything, we are speaking about ourselves. In that way I can listen with heart and compassion and with an ear that wants to know the speaker's heart. It's passions, its troubles, its blindness, its longing. It's hiding behind pointing, blaming, opinion. Ah, and there you are...just like me, trying to connect.
On our way to a more Beautiful World that our Hearts know is possible!
Boom! There's the Charles I remember from pre-pandemania. Thanks for pointing out people are being nicer. Totally true!
Your efforts have not been lost on the rest of us, Charles. I don’t think humanity in general is quite ready for peace yet. We humans have not had enough of the status quo to move on. What you, as well as anyone else, does do by voicing personal thoughts is to plant a seed. Not with the intent to see the effect. Speaking out and offering one’s thoughts is a process of expressing one’s self to the fullest. Not to achieve some visible goal, but to do our part, each of us, to express our fullest potential. Shine on Charles. I’m listening and thinking and so are others.
Ah yes Miracles...
A rupture in ordinary perception—a moment where we break free from the default, conditioned lens and see with new eyes. It’s an invitation from the field of life to wake up, to remember.
Maybe, miracles are not about defying natural law, but about revealing a deeper natural law—one that links consciousness with co-creation.
In contrast to the “cultural noise,” the enlightened silence of nature becomes a tuning fork for the sacred. The forest doesn’t argue. The ocean doesn’t divide. They just offer their song. And if we’re quiet enough, we hear it. That’s when a miracle happens—we notice the pattern, the pulse, the invitation.
A miracle is not something rare—it’s something real, simply revealed in a moment of presence.
In the age of chaos, miracles are what remain untouched, inviting us back into relationship with what is true, ancient, and alive.
What do you think?
Beautiful languaging. 🙏
Yes . I’m noticing it too. Everyday I’m surprised by the light in the eyes of people and the depth of the conversations with strangers 💚
Me too. I work in customer service. People are just more Them. And I noticed myself, too... Singing out loud where as before I'd be afraid I'd disturb someone. Or hugging a tree. Cuz. Who the fuck cares if I'm weird now?
Bless you Charles. The world is a better place with you in it .Sharing all that you do helps us all to move towards creating a more beautiful world right where we are now. Thank you 💕
When each of us gives love unconditionally to everyone, we are on the path for the miracles you speak of to happen.
Let it be so now ❤️🙏❤️
The man you tried to get elected as President is literally waging war on the health care system of the USA. And, not in a good way. People have died and will die as a result of the nutty polices of this unqualified person whose only qualification is sucking up to the convicted felon/rapist. So, thanks for your flowery words. War means death. You’re doing your part by standing on the sidelines.
We actually do know how to make miracles: hold that intention long enough. No persistent prayer ever remained unanswered.
All true - experiencing the same thing though I fear to test it by actually saying anything political! Love that you are keeping your sense of humor too :)
I am in the middle of a month long art project inviting people to stitch love letters to the beings in this world: 'frog love, 'caterpillar love', 'grass love' ... (it's quite a detailed project which I will not explain here). I have done projects along these lines before but I have noticed during this time an even greater openness in people than I have found before - a wanting to be part of spreading love around... and wanting some bolstering / encouragement that it is okay to do it. As my art practice has become one of what I call 'subversive joy' I am happy to offer that encouragement and invite everyone to, in a domino effect, offer that encouragement to everyone they meet... :-)